Darshak Purohit said his four-year-old daughter was standing in the kitchen when the machine blew up “like a bomb”.

The huge explosion blasted the metal drum straight out of the Hoover washing machine - and Darshak said his family are very lucky that not more damage was done. The 35-year-old marketing manager said: “Just seconds before my daughter was standing next to the machine. “If it had happened a few seconds earlier she could have been badly hurt.